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#Opinions on Topspeed C

    19-Jan-90 16:00:44
Fm: John M. Dlugosz 74066,3717
To: John M. Dlugosz 74066,3717
[Continued] I have not played around with DLL's yet or threading. I will though. I think that JPI is quite "foward thinking", and are responsive to new ideas. You will not be disapointed with the current compiler, and they are worth keeping an eye on for the future. The debugger (VID) is a little flakey. I got version 1.00 though. Don't buy version 1.00 of _anything_ 🙂 Version 1.01 is starting to ship now. It is quite easy to use, and offers nice features. One big advantage is that it is slim on memory. I have a program with 15,000 lines and 120K EXE produced, and still had a 250K heap available when running in the debugger. If I had to pick one compiler… I don't know. JPI and Watcom are both candidates for the best generated code, but I have not pitted them head-to-head yet. JPI is faster, and has the "integrated environment". <<right stuff for tomorrow?>> I think JPI is worth watching alright. –John